1700 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1700.

## Events

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* February 1 – Richard Bentley becomes Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.[1]
* Early March - William Congreve's comedy The Way of the World is first performed at the New Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields in London.[2][3]
* May 5 – Within days of John Dryden's death on May 1, his last written work, The Secular Masque, is performed as part of Vanbrugh's version of The Pilgrim.

## New books

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### Fiction

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* Aphra Behn (died 1689) – Histories, Novels, and Translations (fiction and nonfiction)[4]
* Tom Brown – Amusements Serious and Comical[4]
* Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras – Mémoires de Monsieur d'Artagnan
* Peter Anthony Motteux, editor – The History of the Renown'd Don-Quixote de la Mancha, translated by several hands, Volume 1 (Volumes 2–4 published in 1712 in the third edition)[4]

### Drama

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* Anonymous – Caledonia, or the Pedlar Turned Merchant
* Abel Boyer – Achilles; or, Iphigenia in Aulis: a tragedy[4]
* William Burnaby – The Reformed Wife
* Susannah Centlivre – The Perjur'd Husband; or, The Adventures of Venice: A tragedy[4]
* Colley Cibber – The Tragical History of King Richard III[4]
* William Congreve – The Way of the World, a comedy performed in March[4]
* John Dennis – Iphigenia: A tragedy, performed in December 1699[4]
* George Farquhar – The Constant Couple
* Charles Gildon – Measure for Measure
* Charles Hopkins – Friendship Improv'd; or, The Female Warriour: A tragedy, performed November 7, 1699[4]
* Francis Manning – The Generous Choice
* John Oldmixon – The Grove, or Love's Paradise published ("semi-opera", music by Henry Purcell)
* William Philips – St. Stephen's Green
* Mary Pix – The Beau Defeated
* Nicholas Rowe – The Ambitious Stepmother
* Thomas Southerne – The Fate of Capua: A tragedy, performed about April[4]
* John Vanbrugh – The Pilgrim: A comedy, anonymous; performed in April[4]

### Poetry

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* Richard Blackmore – A Satyr Against Wit[4]
* Thomas Brown – A Description of Mr. Dryden's Funeral, verse[4]
* Samuel Cobb – Poetae Britannici[4]
* Daniel Defoe – The Pacificator[4]
* Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz – Fama y obras póstumas del Fénix de México[5]
* William King – The Transactioneer With Some of his Philosophical Fancies (satire of Philosophical Transactions)[4]
* John Pomfret – Reason[4]
* John Tutchin – The Foreigners, published anonymously (verse satire on William III's Dutch ministers; Daniel Defoe replied in The True-Born Englishman in 1701))[4]
* Ned Ward – The Reformer[4]

### Non-fiction

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* Mary Astell – Some Reflections upon Marriage[4]
* James Brome – Travels over England, Scotland, and Wales
* Jeremy Collier – A Second Defence of the Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage &c (See 1698 in literature)[4]
* Eugenia (authorship unknown) – The Female Advocate: Or, a plea for the just liberty of the tender sex, and particularly of married women...
* Francis Moore – Vox Stellarum: An almanac for 1701[4] (first in a series of yearly "almanacs" of astrology)
* Sir William Temple – Letters Written by Sir W. Temple, and Other Ministers of State, Both at Home and Abroad (putatively edited by Jonathan Swift)[4]
* Pavao Ritter Vitezović – Croatia Rediviva
* Ned Ward – A Step to the Bath: With a character of the place, published anonymously[4]
* Anonymous; perhaps Daniel Defoe – Castration of Popish Ecclesiastics

## Births

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* February 2 – Johann Christoph Gottsched, German philosopher (died 1766)
* May 25 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German theologian (died 1760)
* September 11 – James Thomson, Scottish poet (died 1748)
* November 25 – Kata Bethlen, Hungarian memoirist and correspondent (died 1759)

## Deaths

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* January 7 – Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquary (born 1618)[6]
* March 14 – Henry Killigrew, English clergyman, poet and playwright (born 1613)
* May 12
* Joseph Athias, Spanish-born publisher of Hebrew Bible (born 1635)
* John Dryden, English poet (born 1631)
* July – Thomas Creech, English translator (born 1659; suicide)
* August 6 – Johann Beer, Austrian author, court official and composer (born 1655; hunting accident)
* August 8 – Joseph Moxon, English mathematician and lexicographer (born 1627)
* August 22 – Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Mexican priest, poet, geographer, and historian (born 1645)[7]
* Unknown date – Charles Hopkins, Anglo-Irish poet and dramatist (born 1664)[8]

## References

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1. ^ James Henry Monk (1830). The Life of Richard Bentley, D.D., Master of Trinity College... p. 113.
2. ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 289. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
3. ^ Hochman, Stanley. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama. Vol. 4\. p. 542.
4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
5. ^ "Fama y obras posthumas del Fenix de Mexico, decima musa, poetisa americana, sor Juana Ines de la Cruz". Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
6. ^ Thompson Cooper (1873). A New Biographical Dictionary... Bell. p. 544.
7. ^ Carlos A. Solé; Maria Isabel Abreu (1989). Latin American Writers. Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 74\. ISBN 978-0-684-18463-0.
8. ^ George Crabb (1833). Universal Historical Dictionary: Or Explanation of the Names of Persons and Places in the Departments of Biblical, Political and Eccles. History, Mythology, Heraldry, Biography, Bibliography, Geography, and Numismatics. Baldwin and Cradock. p. 5.